Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Incantation
وعلى المرء الإيمان بقدرة كل شخص على تعليم نفسه
-- Paulo Coelho, Brida
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
-- Pope Gregory I, The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints
一個人一輩子吃、喝有限,重要的不是要賺多少錢,而是能為社會做多少事。
-- 王永慶,台塑集團創辦人
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
-- Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering.
-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
-- Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems
Be daring curious.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is impossible for an uneducated man to rebel.
-- Paul Bamikole, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney
-- Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
-- Wendy Wasserstein, The Silver Chair
Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.
-- Bozorgmehr, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-- Woody Allen, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
人學走路時,靠的從來不是規矩,而是從嘗試與跌倒之中學習。
You don't learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
-- 理查.布蘭森,維珍集團董事長
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
-- C.S. Lewis, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
-- Margaret Fuller, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.
-- Nicole Lyons, The Education Decree